Reviewing the first beta of an important release like Windows 7 is never an easy job to do. A confouding factor is that many people have already made up their mind about Windows 7; not because they have tried it, but because it's a Microsoft product, and therefore it sucks. At OSNews we try to judge products by their own merits, not by the parent company that created it. Read on for a set of impressions regarding the Windows 7 beta.

While I don't know about reiserfs, the same can not be said for ext2/3. With the exception of the windows boot partition, ext3 can be mounted and used as ext2. There are a number of mounting options under windows for ext2 filesystems. I use IFS http://www.fs-driver.org/ works like a charm.